Hi everyone! The license has changed to vanilla LGPL:
http://tcpdf.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=tcpdf/tcpdf;a=blobdiff;f=LICENSE.TXT;h=daf21f7d3eb8748eed5ff70c23ed24729175bce5;hp=26adda0b39f000d80f0dbeff438a91caeafba77f;hb=HEAD;hpb=a39c64ba22843519eb0b6bd114b22a3dd2ef4847 Thanks! M ;-) On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Karl Fogel <kfo...@red-bean.com> wrote: > Marc Laporte <m...@marclaporte.com> writes: >>Hi Karl and all! >> >>I hope you are well and I am looking for advice, again :-) >> >>We are discussing which PDF library to include in Tiki Wiki CMS >>Groupware (http://tiki.org) >> >>TCPDF is an option but there is a special clause >> >>It is LGPL v3 + "Additionally, YOU CAN'T REMOVE ANY TCPDF COPYRIGHT >>NOTICE OR LINK FROM THE GENERATED PDF DOCUMENTS." >>http://www.tcpdf.org/license.php >> >>What do you think? > > I'd stay away from that. If your publishing software places > requirements on the *content* of the material you're publishing, > something is wrong. In my opinion, as long as they have this clause, > TCPDF is not free software, despite their claim that it is. > > The clause is also unclear: who exactly is the "YOU"? The first > downstream licensee? What about the second - Nth downstream licensees? > And can a redistributor of TCPDF remove that clause from the license on > their redistributions? (Possibly; after all, the clause doesn't say > anything about itself, and it's part of a license notice, not of the > license itself.) > > The whole thing is legally ill-crafted as well as unfree, IMHO. Stay a > million miles away. Or, see if you can persuade them that this kind of > enforced advertising in output is not the way to go. > > -Karl > >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>From: Xen >>Date: Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:57 PM >>Subject: Re: [Tiki-devel] Slideshow gains pdf export ; ). Wiki next! + >>PDF Document Data Merger >>To: Tiki developers >> >> >>On 11/23/2011 09:48 AM, Robert Plummer wrote: >>> Also, my first choice was TCPDF, but it is HUGE! 11.5 meg. I couldn't >>> justify making tiki that much larger for simple pdf export. >> >>I would also eliminate use of TCPDF for my current needs due to this >>statement in their license: >> YOU CAN'T REMOVE ANY TCPDF COPYRIGHT NOTICE OR LINK FROM THE >> GENERATED PDF DOCUMENTS. >>http://www.tcpdf.org/license.php >> >>On the TCPDF examples, I see a large red logo on the top of every pdf.... >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TikiWiki-devel mailing list >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tikiwiki-devel > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@opensource.org > http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss -- Marc Laporte http://MarcLaporte.com http://Tiki.org/MarcLaporte http://AvanTech.net _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss